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BusinessSkinForm VCL (more than 120 components) help you to create applications with skins.

• open architecture for skins
• application can have one or different skins for windows
• run-time skin change
• nonrectangular, dynamically resizable windows
• default style for forms, controls and menus
• custom buttons in form caption
• MDI support
• skin support for menus and hints
• advanced hints with title, image and multiline text
• skin support for controls (label, buttons, speedbuttons, gauge, trackbar, panel, checkbox, radiobox, tab and page controls,  grids controls, listbox, checklistbox, memo, edit, spinedit, dateedit, currency edit, combobox, comboboxex, treeview, listview, shell controls and others)
• many controls can have nonrectangular kind
• full skin support for all standard DB controls + additional DB controls (navigator, grid, ctrlgrid, edit, memo, combobox, listbox, lookup controls and others)
• bitmap background for edits, memos and grids controls
• skin support for all elements in all controls and forms
• skin support for shell dialogs and many others dialogs
• skin support for printer dialogs
• full skin support for all standard dialogs
• enable/disable skin support for forms
• skin support for messages
• Windows 2k, XP, Vista system alphablending support for forms, dialogs, messages, menus, hints, popup controls (layered windows)
• stored skins in *.exe file
• creating your skins with special program
• zip-compression support for skins
• zlib-compression support for skins
• tested in Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003 Server, XP and Vista
• support BilleniumEffects VCL
• cool skins collections with full rights to use and distribute from your site
• PNG-images support in all controls (internal support)
• Unicode support (SkinAdapter VCL + TMS Unicode Components needed)
• complete support for multimonitors systems
• support SmartEffects VCL (cool animation and transition effects in your applications)

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A package of standard and unique skinable VCL’s for professional UI design development using AlphaSkins. AlphaControls is an easy-to-use universal and powerful tool for developing original skinned and non-skinned business/media applications. We have also added some properties and components, which make AlphaControls (and the applications that use them) unique.

Features:

• Skins are upgradeable and have a very simple structure.
• The elements of each control are calculated in real-time, so any control can be freely moved and resized at run-time.
• Drawing of components is produced in several layers, so components may be alpha-blended, can have nice realistic borders, shadows and some other beautiful effects.
• It is possible to embed any skins within the Exe-file for easy deployment.
• Most standard edit controls are skinned automatically by TsSkinProvider component.
• TPNGImageList component support (if USEPNG key defined).
• Unicode support (see help-file for details).
• Billenium effects and TMS Unicode Component Pack full support.
• Many more…

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Set of Borland Delphi and C++ Builder components for design and print barcodes.

Supported report tools :

• direct print to TCanvas - PSOFT - use procedure PaintBarcode from EanKod unit
• QuickReport - QUSoft.com
• Report Builder - Digital Metaphors
• ACE Reporter - SCT Associates, Inc.
• Fast Report - Fast Report

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Mainly contains easily skinnable/attractive controls with animation/ fade/ tween effects: ImgProgressBar, ImgTrackBar, ImgCheckBox, ImgButton, ImgForm, ImgLED, GradientBar, FadeImage, DirBrowse.

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The HTML component set consists of the ThtmlViewer , TFrameViewer, and TFrameBrowser components. All three are HTML document display components:

• ThtmlViewer: The basic component. ThtmlViewer displays single (non-frame) documents. It forms the basis for the other two components.
• TFrameViewer: Displays both Frame and single HTML documents. TFrameViewer  is oriented more for local disk file use.
• FrameBrowser: Also displays Frame and single HTML documents. However, TFrameBrower is oriented toward Internet style protocols and URL usage. Additional code and/or components are generally required to use TFrameBrowser.

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ExtPascal is an Object Pascal (Delphi, FreePascal/Lazarus) wrapper/binding for Ext JS, a comprehensive GUI Ajax framework. ExtPascal will wrap Draw2d and CodePress libraries too and future releases. It uses ideas from others Ext JS wrappers: ExtSharp and ExtPHP.

Features

• High performance with native code for Server side programming, no PHP required.
• Uses FastCGI or CGI for Web Server communication.
• Compatible with any Web Server supporting CGI or FastCGI protocols.
• Statefull, keep-alive and multithread server applications.
• Parser Ext JS HTML documentation to Object Pascal code.
• Self-translate Object Pascal code to JavaScript code during execution.
• Coding in full Object Pascal, minimal use of (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• AJAX programming using Object Pascal.
• Full wrapper to all Ext JS classes, singletons and widgets.
• Transparent support for all main web browsers: IE 5+, Firefox 1.5+, Safari 2+ and Opera 9+ on any client side platform!
• Server side multi-platform support through FreePascal compiler. Tested on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
• Produce very tiny executables.

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This component is a mix between TTreeView and TListView and can paint a tree whose nodes have additional information sorted in columns.

It has these features:

• Showing of a tree together with columns
• The lines can be drawn striped, so lines alternate their background color.
• It can paint dividing lines between rows and columns.
• Each node can get an icon and the user can collapse and expand it.
• The lines can automatically be sorted
• The user can move the columns without a change of the indices(only in Lazarus)
• Indepent of the Windows Common Controls
• Works with Delphi (there only tested with BDS2006) and Lazarus

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These sources provide a Delphi (2-8 and 2005) direct interface to PGP requiring a preceding (!) full installation of PGP 6.5.x, 7.x, 8.x or 9.x

Available capabilities:

• Encoding and decoding (encryption/decryption/signing/verifying)
• Creating and verifying file detached (Open)PGP signatures
• Importing, exporting, revoking, deleting keys & certificates
• Several key & certificate management functions
• Key & certificate generation (DH/DSS, RSA)
• x.509 certificate & S/MIME support
• Keyserver functions
• Some utilities

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Configurable on-screen keyboard for touchscreen applications with support for QWERTY, AZERTY,
DVORAK, NUMERIC, CELLPHONE keyboard layouts as well as fully customizable keyboard layouts.
Includes a keyboard that can be dropped on a form as well as a popup touchscreen keyboard that can optionally automatically follow focus.

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As developers we’re always doing the same tasks over again, and one task is often connecting to a desktop email application. So what happens when you want to change your application to support a new email client, or want to add new functionality?

Using the Mailbox SDK you can easily connect to any email client using just one protocol, right from your desktop application. Features Mailbox SDK allows you to build a wide variety of applications, and the SDK includes several examples written in C++, C# and Borland Delphi.

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